Cranium: Test Your Brain and Have Fun the Whole Way
By Jonathan Berohn
Looking for something to do when your have friends over that isn’t cards or the same old games you’ve been playing for years?
Cranium is the answer to your quest. But that’s the last answer it will provide for you. As you might have guessed, Cranium tests your brain, but it does it in ways that aren’t your typical trivia challenge. Yes—there is trivia involved, but Cranium makes you use your whole brain—from knowledge and word skills, to creativity and musical talent.
Cranium is the ideal party game, as you need teams to play. As with most board games, each team tries to answer questions to move around the board. That’s where the traditional aspects of Cranium end. Cranium has four categories of questions: Word Worm, Data Head, Star Performer, and Creative Cat. Within these categories, you will be asked to complete such varied challenges such as answer trivia questions, unscramble word puzzles, imitate a celebrity, hum a tune, draw with your eyes closed, and sculpt an object. Cranium is not a game for the one-dimensional.
This new approach has made Cranium the fastest selling independent game ever. It also garnered Cranium the Toy Industry Association’s Game of the Year Prize in 2002. Not content to rest on its laurels, however, Cranium already has 2 new 800 card booster boxes available for those who have played the game a few too many times and become familiar with the answers.
The only down side I found with Cranium is that the questions are fairly easy. In the games I’ve played, wrong answers were the exception. On the other hand, in a group setting it’s not much fun to keep getting the questions wrong, so it’s not that big a deal.
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